LCA Compliance
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
What is a Life Cycle Assessment?
An LCA is a cradle-to-grave analysis that measures a product’s environmental impact at every stage, from raw material extraction and manufacturing to transport, use, and end-of-life.
They form the foundation of every EPD, offering a standardised and highly credible method for measuring a product’s full environmental footprint. With an LCA, you gain the insight needed to make informed, strategic, sustainable decisions.
Enistic makes LCA reporting seamless and stress-free. Our AI-powered platform handles the heavy lifting, from data processing to impact calculations, while our expert team provides hands-on guidance to ensure your results are precise, compliant, and aligned with your specific goals.
100% guaranteed compliance
We produce your LCA instantly and accurately, fully aligned with the relevant ISO standards. Our team reviews and validates every stage of the analysis, delivering a robust, ready-to-use LCA you can rely on for product development, reporting, or progressing to an EPD.
AI-enabled platform
Enistic AI streamlines every step of producing an LCA, turning complex lifecycle modelling into fast, accurate outputs. Our platform organises your data automatically, applies the correct ISO-aligned calculation structure, and ensures your LCA meets all requirements.
The cheapest and fastest solution
With Enistic AI, LCA production becomes instant, accurate, and ready to use for your next compliance steps. The platform generates a full ISO-aligned LCA that’s immediately suitable for EPD creation, design comparisons, tender submissions, and wider sustainability reporting.
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- Explore how Enistic is effectively used by companies to track, analyse, and report their carbon emissions.
- Discover seamless methods for data gathering and integrating Enistic into your team's daily workflow with minimal disruption.
- Seek custom solutions and receive tailored support.
- Explore pricing options suitable for your company and your needs.
- Explore how Enistic is effectively used by companies to track, analyse, and report their carbon emissions.
- Discover seamless methods for data gathering and integrating Enistic into your team's daily workflow with minimal disruption.
- Seek custom solutions and receive tailored support.
- Explore pricing options suitable for your company and your needs.
Why choose Enistic
We combine AI-enabled software with real expertise to help organisations cut through the complexity of carbon reporting and sustainability planning. With Enistic, you get more than just a platform, you get a partner. We’re trusted by over 300 businesses to deliver accurate data, clear insights, and tailored support that makes a real difference. Whether you’re aiming for compliance, Net Zero, or better stakeholder engagement, we’re here to help you get there without the jargon, and without the hassle.
Measure
Baseline emissions are a record of the greenhouse gases that have been produced in the past and are the reference point against which emission reductions can be measured.
Aims and targets
Targets allow you to judge whether the plans you made to reduce your carbon emissions are working, and whether the reductions achieved are meaningful.
Reduce
Select best carbon reduction projects for you and your business, based on your values, the cost, and likely payback time.
Track
Track your carbon emissions to reflect the changes and compare how well you are doing against the targets.
Offset
Offset schemes work by paying volunteers, companies or charities to do things which ‘negate’ your carbon emissions, for example, planting trees.
Certify
Certification is a valuable process that provides checks and balances for the sector.
LCA vs EPD – Which One Should I Choose?
LCAs and EPDs coexist, but they still service different purpose. An LCA provides the full environmental analysis of your product, while an EPD is the third-party verified, published outcome of that analysis.
Use an LCA when developing new products, comparing design options, evaluating supply chain, or preparing the groundwork for an EPD. LCAs support strategy, innovation, and decision-making.
Choose an EPD when you need recognised, independently verified documentation to win projects, meet regulatory requirements, and communication environmental performance to clients or specifiers. Learn more about EPDs here.
If you need complete environmental insights, choose an LCA.
If you require market-ready transparency and verification, choose an EPD.
Why should you get an LCA?
An LCA provides you with the most complete and accurate view of your product’s environmental impact. It supports compliant reporting, smarter design decisions, and clear sustainability claims, helping you reduce impacts and stand out from competitors.
With an LCA, you can:
- Measure a product’s complete environmental footprint across all life-cycle stages
- Support product development and design innovation with detailed impact insights
- Create EPDs that meet strict international standards
- Make smarter procurement and supply-chain decisions underpinned by real data
- Benchmark against competitors and prove genuine sustainability advantages
- Track improvement over time and guide long-term carbon-reduction strategy
- Strengthen marketing and client communication with transparent, verified information
How can you get an LCA with Enistic?
As soon as you have collected your required data, including A1 material-extraction information, Enistic can instantly generate a full, accurate LCA that is ready for your next compliance steps.
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Upload your product data
Add your material, process, transport, and manufacturing data to the platform with clear guidance from our LCA and EPD expert team.
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Generate your LCA
Once your data is uploaded, the Enistic AI produces your LCA automatically, analysing every stage from extraction to end-of-life.
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Select your LCA Assessment Scope
Our experts are on-hand to help you choose the right LCA model for you based on your specific goals.
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Add additional details
If further information is required to strengthen the accuracy of the analysis, our team helps you gather and supply it, ensuring a complete, robust assessment.
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Produce your LCA Report
Once our LCA and EPD specialists validate the results, refine calculations, and check compliance with all relevant standard, your full LCA report is automatically generated through the platform. The report is complete with impact categories, interpretations, and improvement insights.
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Ready for next steps
Your LCA is ready to use immediately in product development, tender submissions, and supply-chain decisions, or as the foundation for your next compliance steps.
Frequently asked questions – LCAs
Who needs an LCA?
An LCA is needed by any organisation that wants a complete, cradle-to-grave view of a product’s environmental impact. It’s essential for product development, design comparisons, supply-chain decisions, and creating EPDs, helping manufacturers, designers, and sustainability teams make informed, strategic choices.
What is the difference between an LCA and an EPD?
LCAs and EPDs coexist. An LCA provides the full environmental analysis of your product, while an EPD is the third-party verified, published outcome of that analysis.
How long does it take to get an LCA?
With Enistic AI, your LCA can be produced instantly once all required data is uploaded, giving you a ready-to-use assessment for product development, compliance, or EPD creation without delays.
What data do I need for an LCA?
A high-quality LCA starts with the right data. Following ISO 14044 standards, we collect essential product information, including A1 Material Extraction data that forms the foundation of any accurate LCA assessment. Using the IPCA database and our AI-powered material extraction modules, we quickly fill data gaps, validate inputs, and transform your product data into a complete, reliable LCA dataset.
What standards are used for LCAs?
LCAs follow the ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 standards, ensuring a consistent, internationally recognised methodology for measuring a product’s environmental impact across its entire lifecycle.
Frequently asked questions - Enistic
Who are you?
We are Enistic Limited, based in Oxford, UK. We are 17 passionate people who, since 2002, have been producing carbon accounting software to help businesses reduce their carbon footprint and adopt more sustainable business practices. We focus on helping larger companies comply with different sustainability reporting requirements and fight climate change. We are stable, profitable, and growing.
Most of the clients we deal with are still with us almost a decade after they started using us, so we must be doing something right!
Does your system handle Scope 3?
Yes. Enistic handles all Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 sections of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (“GHG Protocol”).
Can I generate legally compliant reports from the Enistic system?
Yes. We have produced and filed over 4,000 fully compliant legal reports. The system is tried and tested and 3 of the Big 4 accountancies have audited the reports over the past few years.
What standards does the Enistic software comply with?
The Enistic software is heavily standards based and complies with most standards that you will need in day to day use. This includes: ESRD, ISSB, IFRS S2, CSRD, ESOS, SECR, Science-Based Targets, GHG Corporate Accounting Standard, PPN 06/21, GHG Corporate Accounting Standard Including Value Chain, ISO15804, ISO1404, ISO20121, BS:EN 16274, and ISO5002.
Is the system available in languages other than English?
The Enistic software is available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese. If you need another language, please contact us to discuss.
How many factors are built into the system?
Enistic maintain a large database of UK and EU government approved conversion factors. There are over 40,000 factors built in, including in the software that cover fuel types, vehicle types, energy types, product composition, raw materials, and company annual emissions. Factors are updated promptly if annual updates are issued by the relevant authorities.
Are you on Social Media and/or any other channels?
Yes, we have a long running YouTube channel aimed at sustainability professionals called the Carbon College. You can also find us on LinkedIn.
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Book a demo
Talk to our team to:
- Explore how Enistic is effectively used by companies to track, analyse, and report their carbon emissions.
- Discover seamless methods for data gathering and integrating Enistic into your team's daily workflow with minimal disruption.
- Seek custom solutions and receive tailored support.
- Explore pricing options suitable for your company and your needs.
- Explore how Enistic is effectively used by companies to track, analyse, and report their carbon emissions.
- Discover seamless methods for data gathering and integrating Enistic into your team's daily workflow with minimal disruption.
- Seek custom solutions and receive tailored support.
- Explore pricing options suitable for your company and your needs.